Authors: M. Rowlandson, J. Edwards, T. Jefferson, W. Irving, And J. Cooper Essay, Research Paper

Authors: M. Rowlandson, J. Edwards, T. Jefferson, W. Irving, and J. Cooper

Mary Rowlandson’s short works displayed the puritanical ways of accepting their

fates, and any obstacles in their ways were tests from God. This way of

thinking and living is personified in her (basically) short narrative tale of

herself being captured by Indians, and her daughter being killed by the savages

by the way.

Jonathan Edwards, a exceptionally intelligent man, able to manipulate people. A

slight step up from Puritanism, the religion that he professed was one in which

a person could only be saved if they were elected by God above. Hey, some saved

was better than no saved…right? This form of believing didn’t hold under

scrutiny either, as the evolution of religion shows, for example look at today.

You could be saved only if you were elected, and once you were elected you could

do no wrong, you were just short of divinity here on earth. What followed this

election, was usually prosperity, power and the like, and those who had these

things were assumed to be elect…almost a way to make yourself elect…? This

didn’t last long as people continued to become more open minded…for America

was giving them the freedom to do this, along with many other freedoms.

Thomas Jefferson, America’s 3rd president, and an accomplished one at that.

Jefferson helped bring into exhistance the Declaration of Independence.

He also bought a huge amount of land from Napolean, known as the Lousiana

Purchase for 15 Million dollars, what a deal! Napolean definately needed money

to finance his little war, tsk tsk.

A real thinker in the enlightenment also.

Washington Irving, named after George Washington was a famous writer who very

possibly invented the short story. Irving created such characters as Ichabod

Crane and Rip Van Winkle.

James Fenimore Cooper possibly the first American author that used fiction.